Cloning

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42,000-Year-Old Foal Entombed in Ice Still Had Liquid Blood in Its Veins

April 18, 2019 | Article

It's the oldest liquid blood on record, say scientists who want to clone the ice age horse.
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Mammoth DNA Briefly 'Woke Up' Inside Mouse Eggs. But Cloning Mammoths Is Still a Pipe Dream.

March 14, 2019 | Article

A handful of 28,0000-year-old woolly mammoth cell parts were recently "woken up" for a short time in a new experiment, but cloning the ice age beasts is still a long way off.
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This Plan to Bring Back an Extinct Ice-Age Horse Species Is an Extreme Long Shot, Scientists Say

September 06, 2018 | Article

Will a 40,000-year-old mummified horse revive an ice-age species?
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Toenail Fungus's Nonexistent Sex Life Is More Interesting Than You Think

February 23, 2018 | Article

Toenail fungus is not sexy, and the microbes that cause the infection appear to agree.
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Monkeys Have Been Cloned, Paving the Way for Human Cloning

January 24, 2018 | Article

For the first time, scientists have cloned non-human primates.
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Attack of the (Adorable) Clones: Puppies Are 'Reclones' of First Cloned Dog

November 27, 2017 | Article

Meet the puppies that were cloned from the world's first cloned dog.
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Mammoth Resurrection: 11 Hurdles to Bringing Back an Ice Age Beast

July 03, 2017 | Countdown

The road to bringing back the mammoth — a giant that went extinct at the end of the last ice age — is filled with barriers.
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Should a 'Resurrected' Dodo or Mammoth Get a New Name?

June 08, 2017 | Article

If scientists could resurrect extinct animals — such as the dodo, Columbian mammoth or Tasmanian tiger — should these animals have different names that distinguish them from the original species?
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Facts About Cloning

March 01, 2017 | Reference

Cloning is the process of taking genetic information from one living thing and creating identical copies of it.
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8 Mammals That Have Been Cloned Since Dolly the Sheep

February 22, 2017 | Countdown

It was 20 years ago this week that scientists announced the first successful cloning of a mammal — the now-famous sheep Dolly.
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